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verb (used with object), -pat·ed, -pat·ing.
1.
to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
2.
to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up: to extirpate an unwanted hair.
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Extirpate
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is extricable. Does it mean:
| remove offensive parts |
| capable of being extricated |
Example Sentences
- It represents the active emotional life of many years, memories you can't extirpate.
- Some scattered bands following megafauna around weren't going to extirpate them even if they were as tame as the dodo.
- No one can extirpate us from where our national interests lie.
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Word Origin & History
extirpate
1530s, usually figurative, from L. extirpat-/exstirpat-, pp. stem of extirpare/exstirpare (see extirpation). Related: Extirpated; extirpating.
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